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Stellar convection and the magnetic dynamo
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2D convective rolls, and the alpha-omega mean-field dynamo wave behind
the solar butterfly diagram.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Sun&#x27;s large-scale magnetic field is not a fossil left over from formation -- it is continuously regenerated by turbulent convection acting together with differential rotation, the mechanism first proposed by Parker (1955) and still the standard textbook explanation of the 11-year solar cycle and its famous &quot;butterfly diagram&quot; of sunspots migrating from mid-latitudes toward the equator.">

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